Hood for life-line projectiles



(NoModL) S. INGERSOLL.

HOOD FOR LIFE LINE PROJBOTILES.

No. 894,926. Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMON INGERSOLIJ, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO POND, VEST & SIMONS, OF PORT CHESTER, NFHY YORK.

HOOD FOR LIFE-LINE PROJECTILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,926, dated December 18, 1888.

Application filed geptember 24, 1888. Serial No. 286,144. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom, it may concern:

citizen of the United States, residing at Sta-mford, (Glenbrook,) in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoods for Life-Line Projectiles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to projectiles for throwing life-saving lines. I find that in service the projectile for which I obtained a patent, No. SlSfiIS, on the 7th day of September, 1886, is liable to be damaged by striking upon any hard substancesuch as a brick wall, a slate roof, or a stone pavementso that its cap cannot be unscrewed, thus materially injuring it for future service.

The object of this invention is to provide means for protecting such projectiles from damage from any such cause while in service, so that a projectile may be preserved as a part of the outfit of fire companies for repeated use in throwing lines to persons in isolated places of dangersuch as the upper stories and roofs of burning houses whereby such persons in danger may draw up ladders for their escape.

To this end the invention consists in a hood made of elastic 1naterial-such as rubber-and adapted to lit completely over the rounded forward end of a life-line projectile, and to spring removably thereon, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I represents a life-line projectile provided with one of my hoods in side elevation, and Fig. II is a longitudinal section of i the same.

5 represents the body of a projectile; 6, the

. rounded head screwed thereon; 7, the bail 9 represents the hood which is the subject of this invention. It is made of elastic rubber or any similar elastic material shaped internally to fit closely over the whole forward end of the projectile, including the joint of the cap with the body, and made thick enough over the front end and sides to serve as a cushion for the projectile to prevent the latter being bruised either at the point of collision or by concussion of its parts by the shock when the projectile in its flight meets a hard substance. It is made removable in order that the head of the projectile may at any time be firmly seized in a vise or other device to unscrew it or to replace it.

I am aware that toy wooden arrows have been provided with rubber caps to prevent children doing damage or hurting each other therewith, but such caps required the arrow to be shouldered for theirseat, and they were not designed for a protection to the arrow, because it is evident that common metallic caps or tips serve that purpose better than a soft cushion would do in general service; but I am not aware that an elastic hood has before been fitted upon the rounded head of a metallic life-line projectile as a protectingcushion therefor.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I think is new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is the following:

The combination, with a life-line projectile having a removable cap, of an elastic hood fitted to spring removably upon the said cap and extending over the joint of the cap and body, substantially as shown and described, whereby both the head and the said joint are protected from being bruised by impact with hard substances in service.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIMON INGERSOLL.

\Vitnesses:

BENJAMIN LooKWooD, M. B. COCHRANE. 

